Nativnux Installer

Prerequisites: rooted phone and busybox installed.
You also need to have about 5.5Mb free on your /system partition.

Usage:

To use MC, you need to either have an SSH server on your phone (for example DroidSSHd) and connect using Putty from your PC, or you can use the Terminal Emulator (please see attached screenshots).

Any terminal emulator application works given that it supports “screen” as terminal type.

The price is payed for the installer and the effort to have MC cross-compiled for Android, since MC is distributed under GPL license. Put in a different way, you are just buying me a beer for making it easier for you to have MC on your phone!

I buy Installer for Midnight Commander and I have a problem. When I want to enter to some folders like /data , /system ,/sdcard , /etc , mc show this error “Cannot read directory contents”. Phone is SGII rooted with busybox. I can navigate in this folders with cd /data and ls -l from putty with comand line. But not from putty with mc or from BetterTerminalEmulatorPro with mc.
Please help me to solve this problem.

It is stock rom just rooted. I use SSHDroidPro to connect with putty and I have the same problem.
cd /data and ls -l are ok but if I use mc I have ” Cannot read directory contents”. BusyBox is 1.20.2 in /system/xbin .
Thanks

I also got the “invalid tar magic” message. I use Stephen Stericson’s latest BusyBox (v9.2). It installs busybox to /system/bin so I had to make a hardlink to /system/xbin for Midnight Commander Installer to do anything at all. The device is a Yuandao N90s tablet with rooted JB.

I’ve been trying with all busybox versions from 1.17.1 to 1.20.2 and I am not able to reproduce the problem (also installing it on /system/bin and making a hard link to /system/xbin).
Do you think there’s something else to be mentioned about your setup ? I’ve checked busybox source code and the error appears when tar cannot detect the compression type of the bundled kit, although for many people it works as is.
I have some assumptions on why it could behave like this, but I can’t test these.

Would you be willing to try out some builds and let me know if it works for you ?

trying to install mc 4.7.5.4 on samsung i577 rooted with stock rom and bb 1.21.1
i get the install screen and the log reads:
mounting /system read-write…
installing…
done!
then the install button is active again and there is no sign of a mc binary anywhere -
any ideas?

thanks for the help
i watched the log during the install, grabbed the lines and ran them manually. i found the the tar command wasn’t doing anything – busybox was buggered. i had to try 2 other verions of busbox before i found one that left a working tar binary on my phone. finally the mc i have been familiar with for 25(?) years
thanks again

busybox X worked -
the ones called just busybox and busybox installer did not
maybe something unique about the stock samsung version of android?
certainly seems to be other oddities to it –
thanks again